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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Obama Says He's Had A Scandal-Free Administration

Well-well. Obama says his Administration has been scandal
free for eight years. That is a load of delusion he is trying to feed
Americans. Sadly, the Dems probably believe that because they are loyal blind
people following delusion blind leaders. The Daily Wire enumerates eleven
scandals some of which should have led to an impeachment.

This is demonstrably false. Obama's presidency has been mired
with numerous scandals that would be blared on the news 24/7 if he were a
Republican. But because he's a Democrat, too many people buy Obama's argument
that his presidency has been scandal-free. Here are 11 of Obama's
scandals.

1. Operation
Fast and Furious. This egregious example of a
reckless government endangering lives and then scrambling to cover it up
has haunted Obama for years. As Daily Wire has explained,
"Operation Fast and Furious involved the Obama administration arming drug
cartels and thugs south of the border as a means to undermine the Second
Amendment. The program resulted in the death of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian
Terry. One of the Islamic terrorists in the Garland, Texas, attack also
used a gun that was obtained through the Fast and Furious
program."

The attempt to cover up the fatal program resulted in Obama's
first AG being held in contempt of Congress:

Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was
held in contempt of Congress for stonewalling investigations into Operation
Fast and Furious, and President Barack Obama further stonewalled the
investigations by wrongly asserting executive privilege. On
Tuesday, a federal judge threw out Obama's executive privilege
assertion on the grounds that the Justice Department "has already
publicly revealed the sum and substance of the very material it is now seeking
to withhold. Since any harm that would flow from the disclosures sought here
would be merely incremental, the records must be produced."

It has also been revealed that Joaquin Guzman, better known
as the drug lord "El Chapo," acquired a .50 caliber rifle as a result
of Fast and Furious.

2. Benghazi. The terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya
resulted infour brave Americans dyingdespite
the fact that help could have been sent, but wasn't. Requests for security
prior to the attack were repeatedly denied, and after the attack Obama and
Hillary Clinton falsely blamed it on a video considered offensive to Muslims.
During the election, Benghazi became associated with Clinton—and rightly so—but
it is also Obama's scandal as well. It is still not known what Obama was doing
that night.

3. TheIRStargeted
conservative organizations.In 2013, Lois Lerner, who directed
the Internal Revenue Service's Exempt Organizations Unit, admitted that Tea
Party organizations were targeted under the agency, but blamed it on
lower-level employees. Such organizations were heavily scrutinized with invasive
questions. Since then, Lerner and IRS commissioner John Koskinen have denied
any wrongdoing and have stonewalled congressional efforts to investigate the
matter, citing computer crashes for being unable to turn over related emails.

Meanwhile, afederal courtconcluded in
August that conservative groups might still be facing targeted scrutiny from
the IRS. It has also been reportedthat the Department of
Justice (DOJ) knew about the IRS's targeting of conservative groups as early as
2011.

4. The DOJ seized Associated Press phone records as well
as phone and email records from Fox News reporter James Rosen. In the AP's
case, the DOJ was investigating a story involving "a CIA operation in
Yemen that foiled an al-Qaeda plot in the spring of 2012 to set off a bomb on
an airplane headed to the United States," according to the Washington Post. The DOJ seized
two months of phone records from the AP without informing the news outlet.

"There can be no possible justification for such an
overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press
and its reporters," Gary Pruitt, president of the AP wrote to
Holder at the time. “These records potentially reveal communications with
confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by
the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering
operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that
the government has no conceivable right to know.”

In the Rosen case, the DOJ was investigating a story Rosen
did involving North Korea and tracked "his movements and
conversations," according to Fox News, including phone
numbers belonging to Rosen's parents. The DOJ had listed Rosen as a
"co-conspirator" under the Espionage Act in regards to the
story—allegedly pressing a source for classified information. Rosen was never
charged with a crime.

Fox News executive Michael Clemente called the DOJ's actions
against Rosen "downright chilling." "We will unequivocally
defend [Rosen’s] right to operate as a member of what up until now has always
been a free press," Clemente said in a statement, per theWashington Post.

5. The NSA conducted mass surveillance against American
citizens without a warrant. Thanks to leakingfrom former
government contractor Edward Snowden, it was revealed that the National
Security Agency had been conducting mass surveillance against American
citizens—a clear violation ofthe Fourth Amendment. In 2015,
theNSA eventually endedtheir
bulk data collection of phone records.

6. The Obama administration paid ransom to Iran for hostages,
and lied to the American people about it. As theDaily Wirehas explained,
the Obama administration claimed that they were giving a total of $1.7 billion
to Iran to settle a failed arms deal with the previous Iranian regime, and it
just happened to coincide with the release of four American hostages. The Obama
administration also didn't reveal the details of the agreement to Congress. It
was obvious though that it was a ransom deal and the Obama administration lied
about it.

8. The Environmental Protection Agency poisoned a Colorado
river. The EPA breached the Gold King mine in the state and
"mistakenly dug at the bottom" as well as didn't test for pressure,
leading to "three million gallons of toxic mine waste" being dumped
into a river, according toThe Daily Caller. The EPAhas not been held accountablefor
this.

9. The EPA also broke federal law in promoting a
regulation. TheDaily Wire reportedin
2015 that the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concluded that the
EPA broke the law in using Thunderclap to tout their "Waters of the United
States" regulation as well as their use of "hyperlinks to the
[Natural Resources Defense Council] and Surfrider Foundation webpages
provided in the EPA blog post."

10. The GSA scandal. TheGeneral Services Administrationwas
busted in 2012 for spending $823,000 on an extravagantly decadent
conference in Las Vegas, and it became a shining example of government
waste. Several people in the agency were fired, with one facing an
indictment. Despite the scandal, lavish spending still occurredwithin
federal agencies under the Obama administration.

11. The Secret Service scandal. The Secret
Service was caught in 2012 engaging with prostitutes during a trip
to Cartegena, Columbia, with one Secret Service agent emailing another:
"Swagg cologne-check/Pimp
gear-check/ Swagg sunglasses-check/Cash fo dem hoes-check." They
"also left sensitive government documents unprotected in their Cartagena
rooms," according toThe Daily Caller.